Distributed System Notes
Distributed System Notes
UNIT NOTES
[ I to V Units ]
PREPARED BY
K.ASHOK KUMAR
Associate Professor/CSE
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CS8603 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS LT PC
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OBJECTIVES:
To understand the foundations of distributed systems.
To learn issues related to clock Synchronization and the need for global state in
distributed systems.
To learn distributed mutual exclusion and deadlock detection algorithms.
To understand the significance of agreement, fault tolerance and recovery protocols
in Distributed Systems.
To learn the characteristics of peer-to-peer and distributed shared memory systems.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Introduction: Definition –Relation to computer system components –Motivation –Relation to
parallel systems – Message-passing systems versus shared memory systems –Primitives
for distributed communication –Synchronous versus asynchronous executions –Design
issues and challenges. A model of distributed computations: A distributed program –A
model of distributed executions –Models of communication networks –Global state – Cuts –
Past and future cones of an event –Models of process communications. Logical Time: A
framework for a system of logical clocks –Scalar time –Vector time – Physical clock
synchronization: NTP.
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UNIT V P2P & DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY 9
Peer-to-peer computing and overlay graphs: Introduction – Data indexing and overlays –
Chord – Content addressable networks – Tapestry. Distributed shared memory:
Abstraction and advantages – Memory consistency models –Shared memory Mutual
Exclusion.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES: At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
Elucidate the foundations and issues of distributed systems
Understand the various synchronization issues and global state for distributed
systems.
Understand the Mutual Exclusion and Deadlock detection algorithms in distributed
systems
Describe the agreement protocols and fault tolerance mechanisms in distributed
systems.
Describe the features of peer-to-peer and distributed shared memory systems
TEXTBOOK:
1. Kshemkalyani, Ajay D., and Mukesh Singhal. Distributed computing: principles,
algorithms, and systems. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
2. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, ―Distributed Systems Concepts
and Design‖, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2012.
REFERENCES:
1. Pradeep K Sinha, "Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design", Prentice
Hall of India, 2007.
2. Mukesh Singhal and Niranjan G. Shivaratri. Advanced concepts in operating systems.
McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.
3. Tanenbaum A.S., Van Steen M., ―Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms‖,
Pearson Education, 2007.
4. Liu M.L., ―Distributed Computing, Principles and Applications‖, Pearson Education,
2004.
5. Nancy A Lynch, ―Distributed Algorithms‖, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, USA, 2003
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SENGUNTHAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE-TIRUCHENGODE
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
LECTURE PLAN
Subject Code : CS8603
Subject Name : DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (R2017)
Name of faculty & Designation : K.ASHOKKUMAR, AsP/CSE
Course : VI semester B.E CSE
Academic Year : 2019-2020
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Message ordering paradigms –Asynchronous
execution with synchronous communication – R1 2 Chalk & Talk
Synchronous program order on an asynchronous
system –Group communication – Causal order R1 2 Chalk & Talk
(CO) - Total order. Global state and snapshot
recording algorithms: Introduction –System R1 2 Slide/PPT
model and definitions –Snapshot algorithms for R1 1 Slide/PPT
FIFO channels
UNIT III
Distributed mutual exclusion algorithms: T1 1 Chalk & Talk
Introduction – Preliminaries – Lamport‘s algorithm T1 1 Chalk & Talk
– Ricart-Agrawala algorithm – Maekawa‘s T1 1 Slide/PPT
algorithm – Suzuki–Kasami‘s broadcast algorithm. T1 1 Slide/PPT
Deadlock detection in distributed systems: T1 1 Slide/PPT
Introduction – System model – Preliminaries – T1 2 Slide/PPT
Models of deadlocks – Knapp‘s classification – T1 1 Chalk & Talk
Algorithms for the single resource model, the AND T1 1 Slide/PPT
model and the OR model.
UNIT IV
TOTAL 45
REVISION 05
TOTAL 50